Fireproofing compound



I tier to tier, or oar-load to car-load, or from one 2o objects by means of a fireproofing and-antilon, or about eight pounds; copperas, thirty a suflicient quantity to make the mixture of IIARLES \V. DOUGII'JY, OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.

FIREPROOFING COMPOUND.

SIEGIEFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,235, dated April 30, 1889. I Application filed m 25,1888. senor. 280,990. (Nospecimensl) To all whom it may concern: manner, either after the bales are packed and Be it known that I, CHARLES W. .DOUGHTY, I ready for shipment, or it may be applied to a citizen of the United States of America, rethe bagging before packing,- and the uncovsiding at Augusta, in the county of Richmond I I. ered parts of the bale'then coated over, as may 5 and State of Georgia, have invented certain be most convenient.

new and usefnllmprovements in Fi reproofing The copperas serves as a protection of the Compounds, of which the following is a speci-j' fiber of the cotton and of the bagging against fication. decay, so that the latter-maybe-usedmver ,The object of my inv'cntion is toproduce a l and over again to cgverrcottonmales,Jvhile I0 fireproofing compound to be applied mainly I the other substances cause the linttoadhere m fiflklle and is designed to greatly rein a flattened position upon the bagging, and

duce the fire risk onsaid bales by preventing is well coated and covered over witlr the fire the. runover flame or flash of flame that proof eopperas and kaolin. "i causes fire to spread rapidly from row to row, Q msmnr'atsms and pulverized end of a ships hold to the other, and byprei proportion of copperas as a fire-proof coniventing the communication of flame, and also pound; but I am not aware that all the ingrethe destruction .of the bagging, reducing all Clients of my composition in the proportions the risks to a minimum. I accomplish these. stated have been used together.

Having now fully described my invention, septic compound appliedlgthebales or l'gag I claim-- gingotheneof, and ,consisting of -materialsin The herein-described composition of matter the proportions hereinafter stated. i for protecting cotton-bales against flash of The ingredients are: linseed-oil, one gal CHART; 15 W. DOUG'IITY.

pounds, dissolved'in sixteengallons of water, and added to the linseed-oil, and to this is added about one hundred and thirty-six pounds of dried and fin ely-ground kaolin, or

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WM. D. A. W ALKER, G. T. SIBLEY.

the consistency of paint. "This compound is 5 applied to the'bales of cotton with a paintbrush or whitewash-brush in a well-known i fire-clay have been used with a very small flame and deterioration, consisting of linseedoil, copper-as, water, and kaolin,. in substan- Y 

